Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 574 476 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 6.84% 14.33% 9.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.92% 54.84% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 442 359 282
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £30,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,038 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,061 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,125 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.51% +1.60%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,307 868 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 15.58% 26.13% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 933 635 568
10th Percentile £28,050 £26,250 £27,925
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £53,642
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -16.11% +7.28%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 11 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -1 223 £60,000 +9.09% 90
Essex -6 115 £40,000 - 36
Cambridgeshire -19 108 £57,500 +59.72% 106
Suffolk +33 62 £50,000 -20.00% 37
Norfolk -3 38 £47,500 -20.83% 17
Bedfordshire -19 28 £37,500 +10.29% 21
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 101 (17.60%) SharePoint
2 49 (8.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.92%) WordPress
4 4 (0.70%) SAS
5 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.52%) IIS
6 2 (0.35%) Confluence
6 2 (0.35%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 32 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.35%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 195 (33.97%) Microsoft 365
2 116 (20.21%) Entra ID
3 76 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (12.02%) AWS
5 68 (11.85%) Power Platform
6 58 (10.10%) OneDrive
7 56 (9.76%) Azure AI
8 27 (4.70%) Azure Service Bus
8 27 (4.70%) Power Automate
9 26 (4.53%) GitHub
9 26 (4.53%) PowerApps
10 23 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (3.48%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (3.48%) GCP
12 18 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 18 (3.14%) SaaS
13 17 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (2.96%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 78 (13.59%) Firewall
2 67 (11.67%) DNS
3 53 (9.23%) DHCP
4 50 (8.71%) VPN
5 43 (7.49%) TCP/IP
6 20 (3.48%) MQTT
7 17 (2.96%) Wireless
8 13 (2.26%) WAN
9 12 (2.09%) LAN
9 12 (2.09%) VLAN
10 11 (1.92%) Internet
10 11 (1.92%) Network Security
10 11 (1.92%) VoIP
11 8 (1.39%) PBX
11 8 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.70%) DMZ
12 4 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.35%) IP Telephony
13 2 (0.35%) WLAN
14 1 (0.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (16.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 56 (9.76%) MongoDB
3 47 (8.19%) Power BI
4 26 (4.53%) SQL Server
5 23 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.44%) Tableau
7 11 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.70%) MySQL
10 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.52%) Redis
10 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.35%) Big Data
11 2 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.35%) Metadata
11 2 (0.35%) Spatial Data
12 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (4.18%) Git
2 11 (1.92%) JIRA
3 5 (0.87%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.70%) Selenium
5 3 (0.52%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.52%) git-flow
5 3 (0.52%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.35%) GitLab
6 2 (0.35%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.17%) ERwin
7 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.17%) JMeter
7 1 (0.17%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.17%) Postman
7 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.17%) Vite
7 1 (0.17%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 229 (39.90%) Social Skills
2 55 (9.58%) Finance
3 30 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (2.44%) Law
4 14 (2.44%) Legal
5 13 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (2.26%) Marketing
5 13 (2.26%) Retail
6 12 (2.09%) Public Sector
7 10 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.57%) Games
9 5 (0.87%) Advertising
9 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.70%) Aviation
10 4 (0.70%) Banking
10 4 (0.70%) Billing
10 4 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.70%) Music Industry
11 3 (0.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 136 (23.69%) Developer
2 110 (19.16%) IT Support
3 83 (14.46%) .NET Developer
4 76 (13.24%) Support Engineer
5 73 (12.72%) Analyst
6 71 (12.37%) IT Engineer
7 69 (12.02%) Senior
8 62 (10.80%) IT Support Engineer
9 40 (6.97%) Lead
10 33 (5.75%) Junior
11 30 (5.23%) Consultant
11 30 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 30 (5.23%) Junior Analyst
12 28 (4.88%) Senior Developer
13 27 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (4.53%) Support Analyst
15 22 (3.83%) 2nd Line Support
15 22 (3.83%) IT Analyst
16 20 (3.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 20 (3.48%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (20.38%) .NET
2 89 (15.51%) .NET Core
3 77 (13.41%) ASP.NET
3 77 (13.41%) ASP.NET Core
4 63 (10.98%) RESTful
5 46 (8.01%) CSS
6 43 (7.49%) HTML
7 36 (6.27%) Entity Framework
8 33 (5.75%) React
9 30 (5.23%) Blazor
9 30 (5.23%) ML.NET
10 26 (4.53%) Node.js
11 23 (4.01%) FastAPI
11 23 (4.01%) Terraform
12 22 (3.83%) AngularJS
13 21 (3.66%) ASP.NET Web API
13 21 (3.66%) Kafka
13 21 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
13 21 (3.66%) Vue
14 20 (3.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 40 (6.97%) Driving Licence
3 33 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 15 (2.61%) Management Information System
4 15 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.09%) Cyberattack
6 12 (2.09%) Security Posture
7 11 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.22%) CCTV
10 7 (1.22%) iPhone
10 7 (1.22%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.05%) Digital TV
12 5 (0.87%) BBC
12 5 (0.87%) PKI
12 5 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 154 (26.83%) Windows
2 85 (14.81%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.44%) Linux
3 14 (2.44%) Windows 10
3 14 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (2.09%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.92%) Android
6 10 (1.74%) macOS
7 2 (0.35%) Unix
7 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (20.03%) Agile
1 115 (20.03%) AI
2 103 (17.94%) DevOps
3 95 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (16.03%) Cybersecurity
5 82 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 81 (14.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 80 (13.94%) CI/CD
7 80 (13.94%) Mentoring
8 55 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 52 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
10 50 (8.71%) Machine Learning
11 46 (8.01%) Roadmaps
12 43 (7.49%) Service Delivery
13 42 (7.32%) ITIL
14 41 (7.14%) Cloud Security
14 41 (7.14%) Containerisation
14 41 (7.14%) Migration
15 39 (6.79%) Customer Service
16 38 (6.62%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 169 (29.44%) SQL
2 135 (23.52%) C#
3 84 (14.63%) Python
4 53 (9.23%) PowerShell
5 47 (8.19%) JavaScript
6 36 (6.27%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.09%) PHP
8 11 (1.92%) C++
9 10 (1.74%) Bicep
10 8 (1.39%) Java
11 7 (1.22%) Rust
12 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.70%) Bash
14 3 (0.52%) Ruby
14 3 (0.52%) Scala
15 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.35%) Go
16 1 (0.17%) R
16 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 92 (16.03%) Azure Certification
2 72 (12.54%) Degree
3 30 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.48%) CCNA
7 19 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 18 (3.14%) Security Cleared
9 15 (2.61%) Network+ Certification
10 12 (2.09%) CEH
10 12 (2.09%) CompTIA CySA+
11 11 (1.92%) SC Cleared
12 9 (1.57%) CCNP
12 9 (1.57%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.39%) DV Cleared
14 6 (1.05%) CISSP
15 5 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.52%) A+ Certification
16 3 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.23%) QA
2 27 (4.70%) SLA
3 24 (4.18%) GDPR
3 24 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (3.83%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (2.44%) NIST
6 8 (1.39%) NCSC
7 7 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.87%) GRC
9 5 (0.87%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.70%) PMO
11 3 (0.52%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.17%) HL7
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 137 (23.87%) Active Directory
2 44 (7.67%) Docker
3 35 (6.10%) Hyper-V
4 26 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.22%) SCCM
4 4 (0.70%) Ansible
5 3 (0.52%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 394 (68.64%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.27%) Cisco
2 36 (6.27%) ForeScout
3 29 (5.05%) VMware
4 26 (4.53%) Apple
5 22 (3.83%) Google
6 14 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.26%) Facebook
7 13 (2.26%) Meraki
8 10 (1.74%) Ubiquiti
9 9 (1.57%) Adobe
10 7 (1.22%) Databricks
10 7 (1.22%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.22%) SonicWALL
11 5 (0.87%) Sony
11 5 (0.87%) Veeam
11 5 (0.87%) Yahoo!
12 4 (0.70%) Citrix
12 4 (0.70%) Draytek
12 4 (0.70%) Sophos